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Ilerefords, two years old heifers, first, J. H. Underwood, Fay-, 

 ette. 



Jersey cows, first, P. H. Holmes, Winthrop. 



Yearling heifers, same. 



Grade cows, first, R. W. Smart, Vienna; second, 0. Billings, 

 Fayette. 



Two years old heifers, first, J. H. Underwood ; second, Gilman 

 Hawes, Readfield. 



Yearling heifers, first, J. R. Marston, Mt. Vernon; second, J. H. 

 Underwood. 



Heifer calves, first, George Fifield, Manchester. 



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The first premium for milch cows was awarded to A. F. Stanley. 

 His statement regarding the cow is as follows : 



" My cow was six years old last spring; I hought her the 9th of 

 May, 1856 ; we have made from her since I owned her, up to the 

 1st day of October, two hundred and eighty-four pounds of butter, 

 and one hundred and eighty-four pounds of cheese ; the butter at 

 twenty cents per pound, worth $46.80; the cheese at eleven cents 

 per pound, $20.24; milk sold, $17.50; milk used in iimily, $30; 

 calf sold the spring I bought her, $1.50 ; calf which I own now, and 

 for which I was offered $15 at eight weeks old, $10; new milk and 

 skimmed milk given to pigs, $12— making in all, $138.04. 



The greatest quantity of milk given by her any one day, seventeen 

 quarts. I dried her nineteen days before her calving. Sixty days 

 before her calving she gave between six and seven quarts a day • 

 thirty days, between five and six ; twenty days, between three and 

 four. When her calf was fifty-eight days old, she had made fifty- 

 eight pounds seven ounces butter, and I gave the calf four quarts a 

 day, new milk, until four weeks old. She made an average of one 

 pound one ounce of butter for every day from the 12th of March, 

 when she calved, up to the 1st of October, deducting forty-two days 

 in July and August, during which time we made ninety pounds of 

 cheese, (one hundred and sixty pounds in one hundred and forty- 

 eight days.) When I tested her milk in April, seven and seven- 

 eighths quarts made a pound of butter; and she made twelve pounds 



per week." 



A. F. Stanley. 



